Nar'Sie, the Geometer of Blood has come to tear the veil. But, in order to tear that veil, you need to get a good footing on or off the station. Here is a beginner's guide for helping free Nar'Sie. (My apologies for the Imgur links - the image insert wouldn't work properly)
Understanding Your Abilities:
Summon Your Knife https://imgur.com/O4AlW2x https://imgur.com/ArUZpKE With 15 units of slashing damage, or 25 mixed slashing/piercing damage, the knife is a great weapon, considering it cannot damage your fellow Blood Cultists. There is no limit on how many knives you can have. They will also melt out of the hands of non-Blood Cultists, so they cannot be used against you. https://imgur.com/H7yRwGa
Summon A Rune https://imgur.com/CheLDHP Blood Cultists get a choice of 5 runes to summon, these being: Empowering, Summoning, Conversion, Revive, and Barrier. We will begin by using the empowering rune. Press Z with your knife in your hand, then, choose Empowering Rune. After a few seconds, you will smear your blood into a rune. Stand on it, then https://imgur.com/4YivvFi prepare a spell. The Empowering Rune lets you:
Store more than 1 blood spell at a time.
Take less damage when preparing a spell.
Prepare spells faster.
While standing on top of the Empowering Rune, prepare: Prepare Knife (to make more knives) Sanguine Dream and Twisted Construction. https://imgur.com/SZd433J https://imgur.com/O8Ujr7n. Sanguine Dream is a stun spell that puts un-mindshielded people to sleep. Mindshielded people will fall prone and be stunned, but they will get up quite fast. Sanguine Dream is the bread and butter of Blood Cultist, it's a one click win-a-fight. When you cast a spell, you will speak in Nar'Sie language, like "Bastet, Sekhem Nar'Sie", unless you're the mime. Mimes don't say their spells aloud.
Twisted Construction lets you convert 1 stack of materials into a Blood Cult specific material https://imgur.com/KVk2c5X[/ur] . You ju ... om/t6vmWs3. Then, place 10 Runed Glass onto the Summoning Rune and press E on the rune itself to activate it. The glass and rune will disappear, and you will be left with a Pylon that you can wrench and unwrench to move. https://imgur.com/u0vzcD0
Placing 30 Runed Steel on the Summoning Rune and activating the rune instead will create a Juggernaut Frame, which is like a borg chassis. https://imgur.com/gDgTVsV These are extremely tanky, slightly slow units that are great at defending or attacking in smaller spaces. They heal from pylons, too - the more pylons, the faster the healing. Juggernauts need a Soul Stone or a Hamstone placed inside of them. https://imgur.com/2WCwNj4
Soul Stones & The Hamstone
Soul Stones are the Blood Cult version of Positronic Brains... in that, you place a borg, a positronic brain, or... Hamlet onto a Conversion Rune. https://imgur.com/mBoEgRu. To convert crew members/borgs/positronic brains/Hamlet, place them onto the Conversion Rune, then press E on the rune when another cult member is present. Conversions require 2+ Blood Cultists (later on, Mindshielded crew being converted will require more Blood Cultists to destroy the Mindshield and free their souls). Then, place this Soulstone/Hamstone into the Juggernaut Frame to activate the Juggernaut. If the Juggernaut dies... just jam the Soulstone back into the Juggernaut frame, and it'll get back to work.
Bloodcult Robes & Forsaken Boots
The Drip of Nar'Sie comes in two parts: a set of robes, and a set of boots. The Bloodcult Robes are made by putting 10 Runed Plasteel and a piece of outerwear (like a bomber jacket, or a flannel, or a chef's jacket - something that goes on your outerwear slot) onto a Summoning Rune, then activating the rune. The protection values are fantastic, and the speed reduction is extremely minor. https://imgur.com/u4cHsjA https://imgur.com/JOCDvJq
To make the Forsaken Boots, you just need 5 plastic and 5 cloth, also placed on a Summoning Rune. These act as no slip shoes, so you won't slip on the enormous quantity of spilled blood in the hallways. https://imgur.com/61pwZLR
Setting Boundaries With SEC
As with everything in life, setting clear boundaries is important, but its especially important for Blood Cults. Set up Barrier Runes at strategic, key areas you want to block SEC and crewmembers from accessing. https://imgur.com/FrRP4vw
Each barrier lasts for roughly 25 seconds, and all barriers that are touching one another will activate as a group. For example, 6 Barrier Runes are connected, and activated one Barrier Rune activates them all, at the cost of more blood sacrificed. Just make sure to have plenty of pylons near places you're setting up barriers - you'll heal through the damage rapidly. https://imgur.com/EJNWJE8
Be aware, you cannot throw knives through the barriers. However, you and other cultists can walk through the barrier like it wasn't there at all, as it acts like a solid block to projectiles and non-cultists trying to enter. https://imgur.com/VNxEJns
Congratulations, you now know all of the most basic functions of serving in a Blood Cult! There are additional tasks for a Blood Cult, such as Tearing The Veil and finding the location of the final rift, however, those will be covered another time, as this post is solely for the most basic components of getting a Cult to the end stages.